FCA issues final Policy Statement on cryptoassets
Guidance published following consultation that closed in April 2019…
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Commerce, Contracts & Finance
This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
Contractual terms and privacy policies: how to improve consumer understanding The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published a guide on contractual terms and privacy policies. The guide examines techniques for improving consumers’ understanding of contractual terms, conditions and privacy policies. The focus is on methods offering low-cost, practical and scalable solutions….
Do social network providers require (further?) regulation?
John-Paul Tettmar-Saleh presents the third of our series of this year’s Student Essay prize winners ….
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Cookies and Adtech: The ICO’s ambitious recipe for compliance
Kate Brimsted and Tom Evans summarise the ICO’s recent cookie guidance and report on AdTech which set out some lessons and warnings for website owners in general and the online advertising industry in particular…
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Hover over boxes, ticket-prices and competition compliance: Viagogo AG v Competition and Markets Authority
Viagogo were seeking declarations that a hover over box showing the face value of tickets met the requirements of a CMA’s enforcement order…
Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation publishes interim reports on online targeting and bias in algorithmic decision-making
Publication follows identification by the Government that these two areas required “immediate attention”…
Online Harms White Paper – SCL Consultation Response
The SCL response to the Online Harms White Paper consultation. Thanks to Patricia Shaw, SCL Trustee, and Fiona Whiteside of Twenty Essex for co-ordinating and collating this response….
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Online Harms White Paper: “more systematic and holistic (and less emotive) approach” required
Curators of the SCL response express concerns over structure and scope of the proposals…
Norwich Pharmacal orders, the GDPR – and porn: Mircom & Golden Eye v Virgin Media
Robin Hopkins reviews a surprising analysis of the GDPR in Mircom International and Golden Eye International v Virgin Media and Persons Unknown [2019] EWHC 1827 (Ch)…
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Tech Law News Round-Up
European Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon’s use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell on its marketplace is in breach of EU competition rules. The Commission intends to review the standard agreements between Amazon and marketplace sellers,…